Quotes about Inspiration
Books are not made for furniture,but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
— Henry Ward Beecher
A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.
— Henry Ward Beecher
A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counsellor, a multitude of counsellors.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Faith is spiritualized imagination.
— Henry Ward Beecher
If Christ is not divine, every impulse of the Christian world falls to a lower octave, and light and love and hope decline.
— Henry Ward Beecher
All our other faculties seem to have the brown touch of earth upon them, but the imagination carries the very livery of heaven, and is God's self in the soul.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Every man is full of music; but it is not every man that knows how to bring it out.
— Henry Ward Beecher
They hover as a cloud of witnesses above this Nation.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Music cleanses the understanding; inspires it, and lifts it into a realm which it would not reach if it were left to itself.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
— Henry Ward Beecher
A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.
— Henry Ward Beecher